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FARMVILLE, PITT COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY, A
REDS FIGHT DESPERATELY AS~
NAZIS DRIVE DEEPER INTO
_THE OIL-RICH CAUCASUS
Nazis Claiming Big Suc
cess In Don River and
Caucasus Areas; Lon
don Declares Russian
Defenses Stiffening on
All Fronts Despite Ger
man Claims
Russian troops withdrew grudging
ly, and still fighting furiously, into
the wild lands of the Caucasian foot
hills tnday as the German army
lunged on between the Black and
Caspian seas—its greatest prizes still
ahead.
German columns were moving
westward, almost within gunshot of
the Black sea naval stations of Novo
rossisk and Taupse, and southeast
ward toward the rich oil fields of
Grozny and the Caspian sea beyond.
Rolling 'ever tow reserves and
equipment into the struggle with
their customary talent for supply
arrangements, the Germans con
fronted the battered Russian forces
at Krasnodar with numerically su
perior forces and launched attack
after attack, today's mid-day com
munique said. Krasnodar is the
main obstacle on the road to Nov
orossisk.
Adolf Hitler's field headquarters
claimed sweeping new successes in
the battles of the Don river and
the Caucasus while the Russians ac
knowledged a new German advance
toward Stalingrad on the Volga and
declared whole cities were aflame
on the trail of the Nazi invaders.
Soviet dispatches said huge mass
es of German tanks supported" "by
planes ripped into the Russian lines
northeast of Kotelnikovski, 95 miles
below Stalingrad, and broke through
the Red army defenses.
The assault was finally stopped,
Red Star said.
Despite the Nazi boasts of spec
tacular successes, British military
sources declared that" Soviet resist
ance was stiffening on all fronts.
These quarters said Red army
counter-attacks in the Voronezh
and Rzhev sectors, south and north
west of Moscow, respectively, were
beginning to worry the Germans.
Nazi claims were discounted as
greatly exaggerated.
German headquarters flashed a
series of bulletins asserting that the
bulk of the Russian 62nd army and
the 1st tank army* had been "anni
hilated" in the Kalach sector, 50
miles northwest of Stalingrad, with
35,000 Red army soldiers taken
prisoners.
The German command said Nazi
bombers sank two more transports
and damaged six others along the
Black sea coast.
The Russians themselves painted
a black picture of the vast struggle
except in th^ Kletskaya sector, 75
miles northwest of Stalingrad, where
the German onslaught against the
big Volga steel city was said to
have been definitely- stopped.
New Bulletin Issued
On Pork For Home Use
There should be a 226-pound hog
slaughtered on every farm annually
for each two members of the family,
says Ellis V. Vestal, Extension swine
specialist of N. C. State College.
Hie average person on the faun re
quires about 72 pounds of pork and
16 pounds of laid each year.
To aid farm families in meeting
these foad requirements, the State
College Extension Service announces
the publication of a bulletin entitled:
"Producing- Pork for Home Use." It
is War Series Extension Bulletin No.
6. A copy of the four-page pamphlet
may be obtained free by writing to
the Agricultural Editor, N. C. State
College, Raleigh, and requesting the
bulletin by name and number.
Vestal prepared the text for the
publication. Diagrams of a simple
water trough and a handy' feed
trough, both of which can be built on
any farm, are included.
There are sections in the
on Selection of Feeder Pigs, ManagMj
Minerals, and Feeding. Hat / of
tSSST*? on
In the introduction to the bulletin,
Vestal wrote: "Tue recent Federal
Tobacco Prices
Continue Strong
Average Still Above $40
Mark; Prices Drop
Some On Low Quality
Leaf
The average price paid for offer
ings on the North Carolina markets
of the Border Belt contintied above
the $40 per hundred marie yester
day, with better grades still in strong
demand.
Low-quality lugs and primings
were slightly lower yesterday.
The better-quality leaf continued
to sell from $40 to $46 per cwt., ac
cording to the U. S. Department of
Agriculture.
Meanwhile, reports, from some sec
tions were that the labor shortage
is hampenag the farmers in the
preparation of the leaf for market.
The Border Belt markets in the
Carolmaa have sold, to date, around
18,058,340 pounds at an average of
$39.35. General averages for indi
vidual markets ranged from $38.&8
to $41.96 per cwt.
Reports by markets yesterday
showed in the main full sales and
steady prices. \
Whiteville reported 584,626 pounds
sold for $238,962.46, or an average
or $40.88 per cwt. M. R. Alexander,
sales supervisor, said that the prices
for good quality offerings were about
the same as on Tuesday, wlfle there
lyae some drop in' the poor-quality
tobacco.
Fair Bluff sold 210,162 pounds for
$87,259.26, or an average of $41.52,
C. B. Townsend, sales supervisor,
reported.
Chadbonrn sold 130,000 pounds for
an average of $41.22 per cwt., Lem
Whitsett, sales supervisor, reported.
Tabor City had no figures on yes
terday's sales, but prices were re
ported good. Some top-quality piles
sold at $60 and $67 per cwt.
Fairmont reported sales of 954,384
pounds for $403,823.27 or an aver
age of $42.31 per hundred. C. B.
Stafford, sales supervisor, said grade
for grade it was the best sales day
of the season in the matter of prices.
Clarkton sold 167,670- pounds for
an average of $42.05, A. C. Brantley,
sales supervisor, reported. Farm
ers are well pleased.
No need to hide your light under
a bushel. A thimble will do.
NFLA Presidents
Meet to Discuss
Budget for Year
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' • A aeries of meetings of presidents
of national farm loan associations in
North Carolina to plan finances of
group offices and the loan servicing
program for the current fi^fcal year
and to discuss other subjects of im
portance to the associations and to
agriculture in general have been com
pleted, according to Julian H. Scar
borough, president of The Federal
Land Bank of Colombia, a unit of
the Third Farm Credit Administra
tion District.
Presidents attending the meeting
held at Washington, N. C., were: D.
W. Lupton, president of the Coastal
NFLA, John T. Thorne, president of
the Farmville NFLA, and L. A. Mew
born, vice president of the Snow Hill
NFLA
Each president, Mr. Scarborough
I said, under the program carries back
to his respective board of directon
recommendations which include the
budget of the group office for the
currant ye^r, the servicing of exist
, and the possibilities of ex
services of the associa
„ farmers in the community
are not now members of the as
itioii. This service may include
| the refinancing of farm indebtedness,
purchase of farms,
or providing funds for other farm
requirements through land bank loans
over a long term of years, as well
as by proper planning for aid in the
I
Peifey Draws
Fifteen Years
Fer Sedition
Men Associate Given 5
Years; Woman Gets
Suspended Sentence
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Indiapolis, Aug. 12.—William Dud
ley Pelley, founder and leader of the
Silver Shirts of America, was sen
tenced today to fifteen yean in pris
on ia the first major sedition case
since America's entry into the war.
Federal Judge Robert C. Baltzell
imposed the sentence after denying
a defense motion for a new trial.
The dapper, 62-year-old Pelley,
whom government attorneys called
"a Benedict Arnold" and "an Aaron
Burr" in their prosecution, was con
victed a week ago of eleven counts
of criminal sedition in connection
with publications of the Fellowship
Press, Inc., which he headed.
In passing*- sentence Judge Balt
zell said he believed Pelley should
be imprisoned "for the duration."
Pelley could have been sentenced
to 20 years' imprisonment and fined
110,000 on each count' of the in
dictment under the espionage act
of 1917. .
But Judge Baltzell said he pre
ferred "to conside it one offense."
No fine was imposed.
Lawrence A. Brown, associated
with Pelley in the Fellowship Press
and convicted with him, received, a
five-year sentence.
Miss Agnes Marian Henderson,
Pelley's secretary for several years
and the third person convicted in
the case, was given a two-year sus
pended sentence.
Miss Henderson, who wept through
the proceeding, was asked by Judge
Baltzell if she could "readjust" her
life "and get away from this organi
dation."
"If you don't feel.that you can,
we might as well impose the sen
tence right now," added the Judge. ~
Miss Henderson finally regained
composure and sobbed to Floyd C.
Christhian, defense attorney, that
she could. Christian relayed her de
cision to the court and Judge Balt
dell pronounced the two-year sen
tence, suspending it for five years.
"If you violate the suspended sen
tence," Judge Baltpell told her, "the
judgment cpn be withdrawn and a
new sentence imposed. If you violate
this, I'm going to make it five years."
The Fellowship Press* also ron
victed, was fined $6,000.
Contracts Are Signed
For Wheat Insurance
Contracts now are being signed for
federal crop insurance on the 1943
wheat crop, according- to E. Y. Floyd,
state AAA executive assistant at N.
C. State College.
Insuring the 1948 wheat crop will
mark the fourth consecattos year the
plan has been made available to
North Carolina WttMtt growers. The
program formerly was limited to
twelve counties in the state, but now
has been extended to include the en
tire wheat producing area, Floyd
Another important change in the
program this year is institution of
the new throe-year contract which
covers losses for a period of throe
years, and no one-year contracts will
be written, Floyd said. Premiums
on the three-year contracts may be
paid in cash at the time the applica
tion is signed or may be paid
y6ar. prior to seeding. All premium
rate* are in terms of wheat or the
cash equivalent. If a grower pre
fers, the cost of his insurance may
be deducted from the amount of his
indemnity, if any, or from any pay
ment due him under the Agricultural
Conservation Program, or from the
amount of any oommodity loan ob
tained from the federal government
During the first year of the pro
gram in North Carolina, 219 growers
insured their crop. This number has
steadily increased to 1,801 contracts
on -the 1942 crop. Floyd estimated
approximately 8,000- wheat growers
would insure their crops this year.
The insurance, issued by the Fed
Crop Insurance Corporation,
the grower three-fourths
of the farm's normal yield if losses
are due to causes over which he has
no control, such as floods, fire, wind
storm, or hail. Premium
from .4 to .5 bushel, and
yields are determined for each farm.
for insurance may be
15 at coun
Admiral William D. Leahy, the
President's Chief of Staff, in a radio
broadcast August 9 marking the first
anniversary of the Atlantic charter,
said "this war will probably be long.
It will be the tougktet, hardest, moid;
merciless war we have ever fought.
It calls for the United power of every
American, in uniform and out of uni
form, on the firing line and on the
production line ... I have no doubt
of America's decision."
President Roosevelt, In a message
read on the broadcast, said "gnat
progress" has been made in the bat
tle at production, but "in terms of
what will be required to defeat our
enemies we have only just begun to
get into our stride." Elmer Davis,
Director of the Office of War In
formation, said America's conversion
job has largely been completed; the
emphasis now must be transferred
from finished goods to the raw mater
ials from which they are made. "We
will get them—by full use of existing
facilities, and by tapping new, or
marginal, or abandoned sources of
supply. We will develop new pro
cesses, eliminate waste, and work
for fuh salvage by every citizen,"
Mr. Davis said.
Vice Chairman Ratt of the War
Production Boaxvl, on the same radio
program, said the public must see to
it that all waste and scrap metal is
collected and "sent to the mills—
quickly. There is plenty of iron and
steel scrap . . . That must get back
to the furnaces if the steel needed for
the war is to be produced. You and
'i 'can help by keeping our eyes open."
In a general review of the war
situation, the Office of War Informa
tion said June production of military
planes fell slightly behind schedule,
despite the fact, that the U. S. made
more planes than any other Country
in the world. The same was true of
tanks, of most types of artillery, and
of naval .vessels, the OWI said. Be
cause of enemy submarine activity,
the Office said, it probably will be
well into 1943 before we equal, mer
chant shipping as of December T,
1941. ; '
The WPB announced inauguration
of a nationwide inventory of used
construction machinery to be made
through WPB field offices in an ef
fort to place ail estimated 600,000
pieces of vitally needed construction
equipment into use. A complete in
ventory of available equipment will
be kept up to date at the Regional
Offices for the information of War
Agencies and private contractors en
gaged in war work.
The War Front.
The Navy announled "United States
naval and other foftes have attacked
enemy installations in the Southeast
parif of the Solomon Islands in force
and the attacks are continuing."
Later the Navy said "considerable
enemy .resistance has been encoun
tered and it is still too early to an
nounce results or to estimate either
our own or enemy losses." Gen.
MacArthur's headquarters in Aus
tralia reported August 10 that allied
planes from Australia were main- ,
taining a 24-hour-a-day offensive
over the entire invasion none in sup
port of the attack against the Solo
mon Islands. The Navy also report
ed U. S. Naval forces •"bomborded
enemy ships' and shore establishments
at Kiska" in the Aleutians, simul
taneously with the beginning of the
attack on the Solomon Islands.
Maj. Gen. Clark, Commanding Gen
eral of U. S. ground forces _ in
Britain, said the U. S. Army is send
ing "picked combat divisions" to
Britain and "the sooner a second
front could be opened the better."
He said "obviously we are not
here to sit on the defensive." The
Pacific Coast, from the Canadian to
the Mexican borders, was ordfeted
dimmed out beginning August 20 and
for the duration by Western Defense
Commander D6Witt as a precaution
against enemy attack at Sea and on
the Shore. The Navy announced the
torpedoing of 14 additional United
Nations vessels.
Sabotage and Subversive Activities.
The -White House announced six
of the eight Nazi Saboteurs landed
in this Country by submarine were
executed in the District of Columbia
8. sentences of the
were commuted by the
> life and to 30 year, im
» the Government of tbo United
The first
I in New
U TrnAnc
more i roups v J
Used To Quell
Indian Riots
Poll Martial Law May
Be Necessary To Cope
With 'Ugly' Situation
Bombay, Aug. 12. — The British
called ineraaakv numbers of troops
and place into action today to oope
with spreading violence and it be
came a question of how long martial
law could be forestalled in turbulent
India.
The worst new trouble spot waa
New Delhi where an official state
ment described the situation as
"ugly" and said an Indian mob had
burned and virtually destroyed the
town hall and troops had fired on
civilian crowds yesterday.
The four-day-old tension persist
ed also in Bombay but the situation
at noon seemed to have calmed
down somewhat with the rioters
showing signs of tiring although
some government tracks were looted
of their food loads. «
There was no accurate count of
the cost of life since Sunday when
India's aspirations for independent*
suddenly erupted into a Moody
struggle of growing intensity but
the casualty lists in Bombay dlone
reached at least 31 dead and more
than 260 wounded.
Late today troops opened fire once
more on an unruly crowd whichliad
stoned a military truck in the Bhules
war area of Bombay, adding an in
definite number to Bombay's casual
ty roll.
Following this police opened fire
over the heads of a mob whica at
tempted to destroy a sentry box in
the Zaveri Bazaar. No one was in
jured.
Meanwhile, the death of 12 per
sons, including a police inspector and
the wounding of many, were an
nounced at New Delhi—evidently a
cumulative total for disorders in that
capital.
Since 'the terror began as the se
quel to the arrest of Mohandas K.
Grandhi and other Hindu leaders af
ter the All-India Congress party
made him generalissimo of a plan
ned non-violent campaign to break
British rule, 600 or more other In
dians have been ipade prisoners.
Armed security forces have open
ed fire on milling throngs in at least
eight places across India; the wreck
age of burned buildings, smashed
glass arid overturned vehicles has
piled-up, and a paralysis has begun
to grip the teeming sub-continent's
trade.
Martial la.w is a step whi h the
British so far has withheld al
though civil authorities have re
sponded with a firmness execplified
yesterday by disclosure that the
"whipping art" had been put to use
and the blunt warning of Sir Roger
Lumley, governor of Bombay prov
ince, that "no monkey business"
would be tolerated.
Conservation Materials
Available Front AAA
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Conservation material#—lime, su
perphosphate and winter legume crop
seed—no# are availabhr - to North
Carolina farmers from the AAA, ac
cording to G. T. Scott, chairman of
the State AAA Committee, with head
quarters at State College.
All these materials may be pur
chased from the AAA without an
outlay of cash, Scott said. They are
distributed as grant-of-aid materials,
and casts are deducted frpjn any soil
conservation payments due the farm
er at the close of the program year.
Crimson clover seed, he said may
4. J ordered now for fall delivery at
I a cost of 12% cents per pound, de
livered to the county AAA office or
to seed dealers handling sales for the
AAA. Hairy' vetch and Austrian
winter peas will be available at a
later date, he said.
- Due to difficulties in obtaining ma
terial* by suppliers, it is unlikely
that 20 percent superphosphate will
be offered this year, Soot* said. Nine
teen percent superphosphate will be
sold to farm era in 17 couatiee in
Western North Carolina at $16.72
per ton, and will be available to
[ other counties at f 14.2S per ton. This
, he said, is dm to freight
T>.„: n -1 r, _ Jf IB Mil ■■ M |1 Ti-in II
i HC6S ox ground Iini68toii6
range from *1.30 to |2.90 per ton, de
pending on freight costs, but thin
Devastates Important
German Rail Center of
Mainz in the Rineland
London, Aug. 12.—Five hundred
SAP planets showered hundred, of
tons at bombs, fcnllading 60,000 in
cendiaries, upon the key Gorman rail
junction of Mainz last night, and
reconnoissance early to day revealed
dense, blade smoke bilk)wis* up 15,
000 feet from the stricken city, the
Air Ministry said tonight
For the first time in the devas
tating summer air offensive—in
which official figures showed 13,000
tons of bomb* were dropped on
Western Europe in June and July—
especially chosen scout crews cir
cled over the target town of < Mainz
"and watched the effective scourg
ing of a * German objective," the
ministry said.
One of the observers, Squadron
Leader G. L. Cheshire, captain of a
Halifax bomber, said that within
four minutes of the first bomb
dropped on Mainz large fixes were
raging: and by the end of the at
tack, 46 minutes later, "the fires
increased to more than we could
count"
"Some one dropped a stick of
flares across Mainz as we came in
and with that signal the attack
started," Cheshire said. "Below us,
outlined against the flares, we saw
two Lancaster^ and one Halifax
heading toward the target
Like Pin ball Game.
"For 20 minutes the pattern of
bomb bursts flickered ceaselessly
across the objectives like lights on
a pinball game. The blast of ex
plosives seemed literally to be rock
ing the ground beneath our eyes."
Even uapally restrained official
quarters said the raid on Mainz
vital rail point for the entire
Rhine!and and Saar basin indus
trial region, toas "particularly suc
cessful." It appeared the most re
sounding blow of this month's phase
of the Offensive as the figures on
June and July operations showed
that Britain is repaying Germany
three fold for the Nazi 1940-41
aerial bombardments.
In its great war production effort,
the steel industry of America this
year will consume about three times
as much scrap iron and steel as it
needed in 1938. Hurry in the scrap.
Farmers to Care
Indicated demand* for North Caro
lina flue-cured tobacco for lend
lease shipments are "substantially
greater than last year," and it is im
perative that farmers exercise the
greatest care in housing, curing, sort
ing and grading their IMS crop, W.
P. Hedrick, tobacco marketing spe
cialist of the State Department of
Agriculture, said recently.
"The Commodity Credit Corpora
tion has indicated a desire to pur
chase more than '300 million pounds
of leaf, while the normal conmmp
tlin in the United States is around
400 milliin pounds," Hedrick said.
"With prospects for a crop of around
700 million pounds and'with greater
demand fox cigarettes and other to
bacco products in prospect, the rear
Rom® why farmers should handle their
1942 crop with extreme care are ob
sponden^Reports^Gen
ress Is Being- Made;
Allied Planes Bomb
Formosa
Jape," battled the enemy in fierce
hand-to-hand fighting in the- Solo
mon Island jungles, 900 miles north
east-of Australia today, and the Nary
in Washington declared;
"TT»e marines have opened the door
to an Allied offensive in the soutfr
Pacific."
Meanwhile, unconfirmed ranoro
circulated in Chungking, China's war
time capital, that Allied warlplaneH
bombed Formosa today.
Formosa, a Japanese island off the
east China coast, is one of Japan's
mam- assembly areas for offensive
operations.
Little definite news was forthcom
ing. throughout the day on the
American thrust into the Solomon
Islands.
A correspondent of the Australian
Broadcasting Commission reported
from an advanced Allied base that
"there is a general feeling that oar
forces are still making progras to
ward their objective—that is, the
occupation of the islands in the
Tulagi area."
The correspondent said "United
States marines and other shock
troops" apparently were firmly es
tablished in their coanter-invaaion
footholds.
The London Star said reports
"suggest" that U. S. marines spear
head in America's first offensive in
the Pacific "have been strengthened
and are making some progress."
The newspaper said the marines
were "believed to have tanks and
landing. barges and special types of
artillery" and still held bridgeheads
they established in the islands Friday
and Saturday.
While detailed information was
lacking on developments in the six
day-old battle, a Washington com
munique declared operations wrre
continuing on the tiny but strate
gically important island of Tulagi,
in the southeastern Solomon*.
A Tokyo broadcast, quoting Cap
tain Shoichi K am aria, .Japanese
naval spokesman at Shanghai, per
sisted in the fiction thai* the battle
was over and termed it a one—night
encounter.
The broadcast pictured the aaa
battle off the 900-mileN chain of
islands as having been fought at
such close quarters that United
States and Japanese warships ac
tually collided. ;
Captain K am aria was quoted as
declaring that the outcome was a
defeat for United State* forces a
version in sharp conflict with Moo-'
day's announcement by Admiral
Ernesct J. King, commander-in-chief
of the U. S. Navy, and later word
from Washington and Australia.
The spokesman said the "defeat"
resulted from the pom* training of
American forces for night fighting.
Only a few hours earlier, the Navy
in Washington issued a
describing how U. S.
invasion rehearsals day and
a prelude to the attack on the
Sea islands, including a mode ,
under a barrage of live bullets.
"The marines pot new twists and
tricks to the business of killing Jap.
.... quick shooting at surprise tar,
gets . . . knocking sniper
out at trees . . . knives, small
and Ju Jitsu were important train-.
ing . . . " the communique said.
As the Leathernecks fought to
broaden their hard-won
furious Japi
supporting Allied fliers- ^ruck trip
hammer blows at
and shipping
front north of Australia.
Gen. Doug-las
quarters said Ur
planes bombed the big
base at Rabaul, New
the fourth time in
ing an airdrwns from